St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-29
Shipping Business Paralyzsd at New York
by the Revolt of the Long
shoremen.
The Union Men Now Out of Work Backed
by the Sympathy Of Organized
Labor.
Steamers Able to Get Ready for the
Voyages Only With Great
Difficulty.
The st. Louis Trades Assembly.
Trouble in 4 Chicago Shoe
Factory.

liver IfOnC tnlS morning Is almost COM
pletely paralyZed. and with the exception of
a small amount of freight being moved by
green hands on one or two piers, very little
work has been done Oh the docks of the
principal steamship companies since the
strike of the iongshoremen commenced.
The strikers are confident that they will
succeed and gain their demands. Their
next move will be to get the pilots in the
ocean steamer service to come out. The
pilots are organized. and should the order
90 out for them to quit work, the strikers
hope to stop all trans-A tlantic steamers
from sailing in or out of port. This, the
union men claim, will compel the steamship
companies to
COME To TERMS.
At the National line dock this morning
sixty men, who were picked up from vari-
| GUS sources, were laid off, as they We're in
competent The Wyoming was being IN
| loaded by non union men and the sailors of
the vessel. The latter are paid 80 cents per
hour in addition to their pay as seamen.
The green hands were Immediately taken
in charge by members of the Longshore-
mems union and were organized and be-
came part of the strikers union. The
Erin is not more than half loaded She
should have sailed yesterday. BY Monday
| the vessel may be ready for sea. The
Helvetia, of the same line, lies at the other
| side of the dock with the bulk of her cargo
| still aboard. Affairs were just about the
| same at the GuOn line docks. The usual
number of men employed here is from $50
200. The Wyoming was being unloaded at
two gangways only. The Nacochee, of
the Savannah line sailed on time yester-
day, but it was owing to the assistance
of the union men, who. after they first
turned out, came back voluntarily and
! completed the loading OF her. They, how
ever,
REFUSED TO ACCEPT ANY PAY
for their services. The company has al
! Ways paid the union rates. and the best of
| feeling exists among the men and the COM
pany. but the men turned out from loyalty
| to their union. The pay is 80 cents per
hour for day work and so cents for night
work for piece workers. or SIS per week,
| or $50 per month and board. On these
terms about sixty green hands were work
ing to-day on the Tallahassee, which is
booked to sail tomorrow. The union men
were given till o'clock this morning to
take their places, but not man showed up.
The green hands were then put to work.
The Old Dominion company's dockmaster
says they can get all the men they want.
They have about two hundred non-union
men at work. The Old Dominion steamer
came in last night and men were put to
work on her this morning. The City of
Richmond, which should have sailed yes
terday, will be ready to sail with the Old
Dominion tomorrow. Two hundred Ital-
ians, it was stated, had commenced work
on the Morgan line pier. The dock gates
were closed and pieces of canvas were
nailed across the bars to prevent any one
seeing what was being done on the pier.
A number of police officers were standing
around the entrance to the wharf The
Brittanic. of the White Star line, sailed
this morning
WITH FULL CARGO
and all the coal required. Police Captain
Gastlin received reports from along the
whole water front every hour. All was
quiet this morning. He said he had been
assured by the Ocean association that the
non-union men would not be molested by
the strikers who were remaining at their
homes. They would help the police in
case they were called upon. At the head
quarters of the Ocean association this state
| ment was corroborated. The union repre-
sentativeS said that the strike was one of
the quietest ever known. The union was
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strike was progressing favorably to the
association. LAS fast as the companies
get green hands together we shall organize
them and bring them over to the union.
The men on two of the docks will to-day
join the union. One is gang of Italians
10 man We are determined to have
this thing settled. A conference of the
union was held this morning. We now
demand 40 cents per hour on ocean steamers
for day work, and go cents for night work -
Police Superintendent Murray established
another depot on the North river front
to-day. and a squad of about fifty men
are stationed there. Up to noon reports were
received that everything was quiet. and the
indications were that the strike was
spreading.
Judging from the indications tonight
so. 600 longshoremen, coal handlers, etc.,
Will be out on a strike tomorrow.
THE FREIGHT HANDLERS
who unload cars at the railroad docks SYM
pathlze with the strikers, and will probably
quit work. Tomorrow. At to-day's meeting
of the Ocean Association of 'Longshoremen
many non-union men and many freight
handlers were admitted to membership.
The hands employed at the docks of the
Stonngton line Hamburg line, Peoples
line and the Pennsylvania road will
probably go out tomorrow. The non
union men employed at the Ward
line docks struck for union rates. The
men employed in loading the San Marcos
also struck for 40 cents per hour for day
work and 60 cents for night work. Their
demands were granted, temporarily. it is
understood. The men have joined the
Ocean association. and will probably strike
tomorrow. Delegates are actively en-
gagged IN organizing every branch of labor
about the piers and docks of the three cit
les. In Brooklyn an air of sympathy is
rife among the working classes which bids
far to include many branches of industry
other than those already affected.
AT JERSEY CITY.
JERSEY CITY, n. j.. Jan. 2S.-The
'longshoremen in jersey City and Hoboken
are still out. At the Rotterdam dock the
steamer w. A. Sehalten was unloaded by
the crew. A party of Italians were brought
from New York this morning and taken to
the company's pier at the foot of ork street
under police escort. They became frightened
and refused to work. The Red Star line
steamer Pennland is being loaded by Italian
laborers. and will be ready to sail to-mor-
row. At the Wilson and Thingvalla docks
in Hoboken no men are working. The
helpers of the United States weighers this
morning struck for an increase of pay.
They have been receiving 30 cents per
hour and demand 40 cents. The situation
of the coal strike remains unchanged. The
steamship Salerno, of the Wilson
line, succeeded to-day i'm get
ting her cargo aboard with the
assistance of the ships crew and was
moved to the foot of West Twenty-fourth
street. New York, to take on coal. The
steamship Island. of the ThingvaIla line.
is also being loaded by Its crew. The
Lackawanna Railroad company's piers
were all in operation to-day, and a number